Another year of Southern Exposure has come and gone.

For fun, as Blogging 2014 draws to a close, I thought I’d do a monthly recap of some of the blogs I posted this year. As always on Tuesdays I ignored all the rules and blogged about whatever interested me at the moment..

Christmas Dream

Crazy things, said and done every single day but oneEvery night should, I believe be the same as Christmas eveNights should all be silent, days should all slow downAn end to the hurry, the noise and the worry

Today in honor of Christmas I’m sharing an excerpt from my novel Endless Chain, the second book in my Shenandoah Album series.

Endless Chain explores the many ways that we welcome strangers into our lives. In this scene Sam, a minister of a local church and the woman he loves, Elisa and her friend Adoncia, are helping the church children, along with children from the Latino immigrant community, practice their reenactment of Las Posadas for Christmas Eve.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! What time you say? It’s time for my annual Booklover Carol, of course. This ridiculous tradition is a surprise to you? Well, every year I pen a new carol, and publish it here. One is sillier than the other. Who could decide?

Here in the United States Thanksgiving came and went this past week. On Thursday I sat at the dining room table with my husband, my brother, my sister-in-law eating the feast we had prepared. I might as well have set two more places. Because as far as I was concerned the two major characters in my new novel were sitting right there with us.